Harris County was less than an hour away from sending out the first round of $500 checks to 1,600 families when the Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocked the income pilot program.
The Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocked Uplift Harris just before the first round of checks were supposed to send to 1,600 families on Tuesday.Hundreds of families in need will continue to have to wait after the Republican-controlled Texas Supreme Court put a hold on Harris County's guaranteed income program known as "
On Tuesday, the county was less than an hour from sending out the first round of $500 checks when the high court granted an administrative stay in the state's petition to stop the program.The Supreme Court's decision came after an appeals court denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's emergency motion to block the county from sending checks to residents on Monday.
The temporary injunction hearing came more than a week after Paxton sued the county over the program, claiming it violates the state Constitution's ban on cities and counties gifting public funds to people or corporations. Paxton asked the judge to issue a temporary restraining order to stop it from moving forward."Today's decision is disappointing but not surprising given how politicized we've seen the Texas Supreme Court become," Harris County Attorney Christian D.
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